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From legacy to lakehouse: Centralizing insurance data with Delta Lake

CIO

In 2025, insurers face a data deluge driven by expanding third-party integrations and partnerships. The financial and security implications are significant. This disconnect creates ongoing friction that affects operational efficiency, inflates costs, weakens security and hampers our ability to innovate.

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Why a data-first culture is key to unlocking value from AI in insurance

CIO

Data is the lifeblood of the modern insurance business. Yet, despite the huge role it plays and the massive amount of data that is collected each day, most insurers struggle when it comes to accessing, analyzing, and driving business decisions from that data. There are lots of reasons for this.

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Accelerating AI at scale without sacrificing security

CIO

For others, it may simply be a matter of integrating AI into internal operations to improve decision-making and bolster security with stronger fraud detection. According to a Cloudera survey, 72% of business leaders agree that data governance is an enabler of business value, underscoring the critical link between secure data and impactful AI.

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The ‘Great IT Rebrand’: Restructuring IT for business success

CIO

Traditionally viewed as rock-solid and steady, the insurance industry is not exactly associated with taking big risks. Gray Nester, CIO, Brown & Brown Insurance Gray Nester / Brown & Brown Some, like BBNI’s Technology Solutions Group, are being renamed and restructured to orchestrate greater immersion in the business.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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What happened In CrowdStrikes own root cause analysis, the cybersecurity companys Falcon system deploys a sensor to user machines to monitor potential dangers. What if theres an urgent security fix? If theres a security threat and potential exposure, you have to go through the testing process as quickly as you can, Prouty says.

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Cowbell raises $100M to build out its AI-based cyber insurance platform for SMBs

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Cybercrime is on the rise, and today an insurance startup that’s built an artificial intelligence-based platform to help manage the risks from that is announcing a big round of funding to meet the opportunity. “Underwriting cyber insurance for SMEs is a more dire prospect than for large enterprises,” he said.

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EXL’s Insurance LLM transforms claims and underwriting

CIO

As insurance companies embrace generative AI (genAI) to address longstanding operational inefficiencies, theyre discovering that general-purpose large language models (LLMs) often fall short in solving their unique challenges. Claims adjudication, for example, is an intensive manual process that bogs down insurers.